Year of Drama
This chapter details Ernst Kantorowicz's life after the Nazis took power in Germany in the winter of 1933. His situation as a Jewish professor became precarious. In Frankfurt, the Nazis moved to take control of the university. The university Senate met to discuss ways of forcing out Jewish faculty members. To this end, it requested that Kantorowicz take an immediate leave of absence for the sake of “avoiding disruptions of his classes.” In a draft of a response dated April 3, addressed to the dean of the philosophical faculty for forwarding to the newly installed Nazi commissar for education in the province of Hesse, Kantorowicz requested the suspension of his professorship for the indefinite future albeit with continuing pay.
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2012 ◽
Vol 69
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pp. 2096-2100
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2019 ◽
Vol 38
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pp. 1500-1536